skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean I'm unimpressed as far as user agency goes, not as far as privacy goes.
Dell even sells some preloaded Linux laptops, IIRC... what gives, Dell?

What gives is that the Developer Edition gives them permission to make the other models 110% Windows-only because "if you want Linux just buy the Developer Edition". In their minds there is no reason to make the normal edition support Linux.
Sarcasm doesn't come across well in written comments.
>leaving Gaza alone for 15+ years

There's been a blockade of Gaza. The Israelis determine the caloric intake of the inhabitants of Gaza. Everyone in Gaza has an Israeli issued ID card.

I thought Israel's strategy as it related to Gaza was to "mow the grass" every couple of years. The Dahiya doctrine.
It only handles inbound connections.
I have grown weary of little snitch annoying me all the time but it was insightful about how much stuff Apple has me pinging by default: like yahoo.com for weather on boot just to name one.

This kind of angered me, I don’t want yahoo getting my ip anywhere I am in the world any time I turn on my computer. I think I found like 4-5 things that are baked into a clean Mac install these days that I took exception to and forbade.

Then Microsoft office and adobe are evil and constantly evading it and getting smacked down too.
Yeah. I guess I can see that.
Some problems he inherited. But Iranian crisis was his own making.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/10/ayatollah-khom...
Canada would be reluctant. So would Europe, South Asia and so forth. The biggest hurdle for China is the CCP. It is one thing to use physical products from China but relying on the CCP for knowledge may be a step too far for many nations.
It's a variation of the tragedy of the commons problem... The rules of war are meant to protect civilians, but what do you do when an opponent abuses it by using civilians as human shields? And when civilians even harbour the enemy?

Should Israel just let Hamas attack them without consequences since Hamas hides among civilians?
most of the Netherlands
One wonders what was going on during Lincoln's presidency that could have contributed to such a massive increase.
While I’m not quite sure what we’re talking about here in terms of platforms, I’ll mention a couple of personal and team server platforms that are subject to the Zombocom Problem and a couple that aren’t. WordPress, NextCloud, and OwnCloud try to be all you need and even though they have plugins they seem subject to the Zombocom problem, because stuff gets shoehorned into a particular app. On the other hand there is https://sandstorm.org/ and Dokku, which let you run an app and just give resources to them, so if you want to run a Trello clone you can just run the Trello clone.

Sandstorm had a clear goal of getting critical mass and changing personal servers forever and I think in many ways it was close.
> it's a skill issue, sorry to say.

That's the point, isn't it? You need to try, and have both the determination and "skill", to find variety when the environment gives you homogeneity.

I'm sure I could find an elementary school teacher, or an insurance salesperson to chit-chat with in SF or NY. I never tried, cause why would I? These aren't Pokemon to collect. It just so happens that my gym in the middle of Manhattan filters quite strongly for a certain income level, and thus age, but also profession, etc. In my current gym we all just go to the same class together.

Next time I'm in SF or NY I guess I can invest the time and effort to join a facebook group to meet school teachers, if that's what we mean by skill here.
Interesting, I just now know about selective testing after reading this post. But, now I wonder when do you do selective testing and when do you just break up the codebase?
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I'm saying that for most problems, a lot of the relevant data is not digital. I'm a software developer, and most of the time, the task is to transcript some real world process to a digital equivalent. But most of the time, you lose the richness of interactions to gain repeatability, correctness, speed,...

So what people bothers writing down are just a pale reflection of what has been, the reader has to relies on his experience and imagination to recreate it. If we take drawing for example, you may read all the books on the subject, you still have to practice to properly internalize that knowledge. Same with music, or even pure science (the axioms you start with are grounded in reality).

I believe LLMs are great at extracting patterns from written text and other forms of notation. They may be even good at translating between them. But as anyone who is polyglot may attest, literal translation is often inadequate because lot of terms are not equivalent. Without experiencing the full semantic meaning of both, you'll always be at risk at being confusing.

With traditional software, we were the ones providing meanings so that different tools can interact with each other (when I click this icon, a page will be printed out). LLMs are mostly translation machines, but with just a thin veneer of syntax rules and terms relationships, but with no actual meaning, because of all the information that they lack.
There are things that I want to shout at people, things that seem so blindingly obvious to me, but at the same time, I know that I probably would never have learned them if someone had shouted them at me. They are things that I had to notice while my mind was able to be quiet and curious.

A hint of what I mean:

Conspiracy theories come from seeking satisfaction and comfort, not ignorance. Debunking will never be enough. If a person tells themselves that they will not be affected by a conspiracy theory or scam, they have made themselves MORE vulnerable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454945

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Unsatisfying narratives feel nihilistic, but there might be something important on the other side of that nihilism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42261315

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'Blame' is a place in our minds where we set down our heaviest burdens. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248548

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Anyway, what I mean to say is that fiction can take us places that shouting at each other never will.
It is fun and frustrating to see what LLMs can and can't do.
Last week I was trying to find the name of a movie so I typed a description of a scene in chatgpt and said "I think it was from late 70s or early 80s and even though it is set in the USA, I'm pretty sure it is European" and it correctly told me it was the House by the Cemetery.

Then last night I saw a video about the Parker Solar Probe and how at 350,000mph it was the fastest moving man-made object. So I asked chatgpt how long at that speed it would take it to get to Alpha Centauri which is 4.37 light years away. It said it would take 59.8 million years. I knew that was way too long so I had it convert mph to miles per year and then it was able to give me the correct answer of 6817 years.
I have found copilot autocomplete to be somewhat useful for small blocks of code.

Coca-Cola and Toys R Us have found them useful for making terrible commercials cheaper than making terrible commercials by hand and way cheaper than making good commercials that actually improve their brand image. Seems weird they’d do that for immensely expensive holiday television spots rather than throwaway 5 second YouTube spots or something but hey — I’m clearly not a corporate genius.
I’ve been using Little Snitch for ages. It been my go to on all my all new systems and they offer discounts on upgrades to new versions. Their support has been excellent the one time I needed it.
Oh please. He couldn’t get spending cut and congress forced his hand. Taxes were continuously raised to deal with the deficit and it came to a head during the infamous Bush 1 tax rises, that incidentally led to balanced budgets in the late 1990s and evaporated since the subsequent tax cuts.

If anything the Reagan tax reforms and simplification were more important. 90% tax rates are ridiculous, even though nobody paid that in practice due to all the deductions.

I’m not trying to shit on Reagan or anything. He was certainly inspirational, charismatic, and was a huge boost to national morale, but IMO he was overrated and had lucky timing more than he was a great man.
And this is the only remaining loophole.

Because they closed the one where you use a fake email and get the password wrong.

Because they closed the one where you could fake not having an internet connection.

Because they removed the workflow to set up a local account. After they used dark patterns and misleading language to convince people to set up MS accounts instead.

It's a steaming load of shit.
> There's been a blockade of Gaza

Are we going to forget that Gaza used to literally be Egypt? And that Egypt blockaded Gaza recently, even before the war?

Israel literally let hundreds of thousands of Gazans work in Israel, travel and let goods through... Egypt also has a border with Gaza. What did they do? Did they help them?

> I thought Israel's strategy as it related to Gaza was to "mow the grass" every couple of years. The Dahiya doctrine.

The Dahiya doctrine relates to the fact both Hamas and Hezbollah have been lobbing rockets at Israel, more or less continuously, for the last 15 years.
This is unreasonable.
Life Cannot Be Delegated
> I don't know why we started doing this to begin with.

Because Steve Jobs said:

> People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

and too many people wrongly believe that they are as smart as Steve Jobs.
I was reacting to the very direct and unqualified statement that who a person follows strongly indicates their values.

If you’re just using social media for entertainment, I don’t care who you block or how. But perpetuating the idea that “follow equals endorsement” is a problem regardless.

This has less to do with people having a right to be seen and more to do with the perpetuation of ideas that make society more polarized in spaces where such things matter.

To put this another way, I’d react less strongly to “blocking people based on who they follow weeds out almost everyone I don’t want to see and I accept the false positives”. I’d still express concerns about the resulting echo chamber but that’s a far more reasonable position.
Corruption in the last 4 bytes of a checksummed block. So, it's about the rate of detected corruption in the block overall and the distribution of corrupt bits, and the calculated odds of a corrupt 4 byte block end.

In terabytes, non trivially non zero I guess. Since the git submission has "my calculated version" you could imagine doing a post hoc comparison block by block on a tainted FS. Painfully slow I bet.
What is currently advertised as AI (LLMs) cannot replace all software developers.
It is a tool that can make software developers more productive so there will be less need for low level positions but there will still be a substantial need for senior developers.
LLMs, if tuned for software development, present an opportunity for a company, that can plan beyond the next couple of quarters, to produce software of unprecedented quality and with as yet unseen features and usability.
Of course, there will be companies which will use LLMs incorrectly and replace most developers (and other people) and create products that are even worse than what is currently available since they don't understand what LLMs are or how to utilise them correctly. Those companies will either realize and fix their mistakes or go bankrupt.
> so how do you unregister an event after you close the file ... You have no way to do that, you just keep getting events for a resource you no longer have open ... It's incredible that you can set things up in a way that you get events on a resource you can no longer refer to in any way.

Yes, I thought that too, it does not make much sense to me either. (I would suppose that you could close the epoll file descriptor, but then that would cancel all events, and not only that one.)
Not sure why you are so upset about a small and neat study ("please, please stop").
If you ask it to summarize (without feeding the entire bible), it needs to know the bible. Knowledge and reasoning are not entirely disconnected.
There was that coup Eisenhower OK'd in 1953. I can see how Carter not supporting another coup would be taken poorly.
Sounds reasonable - thanks for the thoughtful reply. I agree the "delta of inconvenience" is the important measure. The on-demand model we use for gas cars is inconvenient even for gas (hate stopping for gas!) but magnified by longer EV charge times.

Can charge at home? super convenient & time savings.

Charge at work? may be subsidized by employer, but you may have to go move the car during the day, etc.

"while shopping for groceries" is an interesting "3rd space" - you're going there consistently, so if charging works on that time frame (charger space available, doesn't require you to delay after shopping or interrupt the shopping, etc.), it's a great fit.
And now we've got a generation of IT professionals coming up the ranks who have no idea how to operate their own infrastructure.
Everyone thinks they’re a genius that can solve every problem and no one wants to sell books better.

More realistically, everyone knows the best you can get with your own little thing is bought out. That is not enough for many smart people’s ego.
Yes! A few things stood out from my POV:

1) They didn't waste my or their time. Interviews rounds clearly progressed towards a hiring decision.

2) Their version of an AWS-style "loop" was a half day with people I'd be working with directly in various capacities. Questions were directly relevant to work culture and function.

3) After the first couple of rounds (recruiter screen, then first tier) all interviews were in person at their office. Interviews were conversational, open, and honest on both sides.

4) The final interview round with the hiring manager was structured as a round of questions to find possible match among the choices of equivalent openings I was likely qualified for.

5) At offer time, I told them what I'd work for and they told me what they couldn't exceed. We discussed total package and wiggle-room. The final offer they made had both no surprises and was also better than other incoming offers.

The position is not specifically rare in my industry, but I am specifically well qualified for it. None of us had worked together before, but we did have some shared clients so they were able to check my bona fides.

In comparison:

- AWS's process, while highly structured and tries for impartiality, is a massive time suck for all involved and as a result is kind of a mindless assembly line. However, it's kind of a good first interview among many companies since it preps you well for everybody else.

- There's more to this story, but briefly, I had two prior near interviews through a strong internal referral and another recruiter who put me into the wrong funnel then disappeared along with the position.

- There's also more here involving friends and former colleagues but to put it short, Google's process is stupid, disconnected, and broken while being far too self-congratulatory. It's a surprisingly good match for what they appear to be as a company externally, and from what I hear, how they are these days internally.
> No, it won't be. Israel doesn't want to grant citizenship to the 3 million Arabs who live there, the vast majority of whom would like to annihilate the state of Israel

There is a plan for this though. The pressure is building in the West Bank with attempts to cut PA funding/banking and expanding settlements.

Details:

https://mecouncil.org/blog_posts/a-crisis-averted-in-palesti...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/middleeast/west-bank-conflict...

Some like Yair Wallech says the Israeli right is trying to start an uprising so they can pull a Gaza on the West Bank Palestinians:

https://bsky.app/profile/yairwallach.bsky.social/post/3leicm...
I know that you were talking about individual commutes here. The city of Oslo, Norway was considering having a shared trunk in one corner, where the metro, the streetcar, and the intercity rail all shared a stretch of track. I believe it was to make efficient use of existing right-of-way. I think that there were problems due to electrification (750 V vs 15 kV) and other political problems.

There is a different section in Oslo where the streetcar and metro share a stretch of track using a clever interlocking.
Disagree. Scheduling is exactly the type of thing the OS should be doing. It’s (a) extremely easy to get wrong and cause starvation and other problems (b) very complex and large in general and most importantly (c) the OS is the only component with birds-eye view across all processes and hardware (like Numa cores). Every major OS is already doing it, but not for async IO. So it’s absolutely reasonable to maintain this responsibility during the transition to async IO.

This goes back to my initial point. We should not need a team of PhDs and kernel hackers to do hello world. The old sync syscalls have largely uniformity across platforms, but the async ones don’t. This means, in practice, that most applications, runtimes and thus users, don’t get to enjoy the benefits.
>ahh yes, the mythical Biden crime family... Any minute now there's be some evidence of literally anything - anything at all... No wait, before we get to evidence we'll at least have an idea of what crime he's supposed to have committed? (The drug and gun charges are fair enough - but they're very much related to Hunter - not to Joe.)

What more evidence do you need besides Biden pardoned his son in general for any and all offenses he committed in a 10 year period? The laptop has been acknowledged by even the pro-Democrat media now, after years of trying to bury the story and censor everyone on the topic. There is evidence of crimes related to Hunter's position on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian oil company. Biden had a lot of political protection to cover this up which is falling apart now.

>So they cast a vote based on wishful thinking? Ironically I think the current lifestyle is sustainable in the long term, with only minor lifestyle changes. But it would seem then that your voters would prefer to simply pretend the problems don't exist? That they can magically go back to 50 years ago?

>I must say, it sounds like you have less faith in the US voter than I do...

I say it's wishful thinking because the bottom line is we are going deeper and deeper into debt, outsourcing everything, and this election is the first sign in a long time that the public is waking up to their own demise.

>On the benefits front - a target cut of $2 trillion was made very clear. Looking at govt spending how exactly can that number be reached _without_ cutting benefits?

That was quite literally a random number that the campaign picked. I don't think they know how to cut $2 trillion. They promised not to cut benefits. Ending the wars might help, and maybe some things can be made more efficient. But a noticeable reduction in government benefits won't fly.

>I guess the next 4 years will play out, and either it'll be better or worse. My money is on worse (just based on the economic impact of the policies already announced) but I don't have a crystal ball, so I guess anything is possible...

My money is on worse. Not because Trump has the wrong idea, but because it's never gone any other way in my lifetime really, and I don't think he is a magician. I think a lot of people recognize that we're in a lot of trouble but don't see a way out. They can't even stop their jobs from being given to foreign workers and overseas companies. Many of them are struggling to get by. I myself make "good" money but I don't know when or if I will be able to buy a house or retire. Don't even get me started on the dating/marriage market.
That's unbelievably high for Apple when its hardware market share is much less than that (around 30% for iphones and significantly less than 20% for laptops and desktops, hard to quickly find consistent numbers).
You obviously know more about macOS internals than most people.

I don’t know how to monitor energy use, and if I have time, I will look it up.

For me, one app which not only notifies, also shows me where its connecting is a big advantage.
This string of unprovable assumptions is not how you do things.
Most people won't care if the products are useful. Chinese EVs, Chinese HSR, Chinese industrial robots, Chinese power tech, they are already selling. LLM isn't just a chatbot, it could be a medical device to help in areas without sufficiently trained doctors, for example.
When I was taught the Metric System in elementary school it felt like we were being whisked into the future. I know it may sound like I'm putting too fine a point on it, but by joining the rest of the developed world (and more specifically, the scientific community) it felt like a step along a path to a global community.

Reagan tossed the whole thing and we were snapped back to feet, inches, ounces, pounds, Fahrenheit.

I have photos from road trips in the late 70's where Federal highway signs, like on mountain passes, have the elevation indicated in Meters. When I used Google street view I see we're back to regressive signage.

I know, a minor nit.
And to be absolutely clear: it should be obvious, but I am not stating that CIA intervening in other counties' economies isn't bad - just that it is objectively difficult than IP theft of the kind the PRC engages in.
That's right. Rather than paying your $10/month 'racket', you simply paid $300 one time.

Then every 3 years or so you spent $300 again to get the updated version. It was a much better system!

/s
Dialogic Learning
The Deadly Tobacco Drug War Down Under
Further it’s far from given that had the hostages been released Carter would be re-elected. 1980 was the second straight year of double digit inflation.

Reagan was elected with 51% of the popular vote to Carter’s 41% and carried 44 states to Carter’s 6(+DC), tallying 489 electoral votes to Carter’s 49. This was not a close election.
You have inspired more questions about incremental saves: speed was an obvious issue with personal computers, but was it implemented on any minis or mainframes? These were multiuser systems (i.e. multitasking), so they could do background disk I/O. Also, would it be a possibility on some personal computers? For example: 8-bit Commodore computers had their own CPU and could operate indepedently from the computer, while the 6809 was famous for being sophisticated enough to support multitasking (e.g. OS-9). Even less sophistcated machines could do I/O in the background if the disk controller signalled the completion of a read/write operation via interrupts.

I'm asking because it is also possible that such features weren't implemented because the weren't thought of or because the defied contemporary expectations.
I can't remember the last time I visited Wikipedia.

Genuinely don't know why anyone would use it when you have perplexity, gemini, chatGPT search, etc. at your disposal.
https://github.com/positive-security/

Nothing there for Blinkencity yet.